Seven sugars. Beat the eggs and vanilla sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer, adding icing sugar by the spoonful while stirring until the mixture is thick and foamy. Slowly add the oil and egg liqueur and stir.
Mix flour, starch and baking powder, sieve over it and fold in until a smooth dough is formed. Grease a ring cake tin (approx. 2 litres capacity), sprinkle with breadcrumbs and fill in the dough.
Bake in the preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 1 1/2 hours. Let the finished cake rest in the pan for approx. 15 minutes, turn out onto a cake rack and let it cool down. Melt the chocolate coating separately on a hot water bath.
Let it cool down. Just before covering the cooled cake, reheat the chocolate coating. Cover the cake in strips and allow the icing to set. Results in about 18 pieces.